Chapter Summaries

Meng Chen broke through to the Hunyuan Golden Immortal realm after Ancestor Hongjun lectured on the Dao, then returned to the Jade Void Palace. He learned that the Primordial Wilderness's powers were preparing to face the Yangmei Great World, and Yuanshi Tianzun entrusted the sect's affairs to him.

• Meng Chen thanked Ancestor Hongjun for helping him break through and asked about the opportunity hidden in Pangu's divine map, but Hongjun admitted nothing and sent him back to the Jade Void Palace.
• Yuanshi Tianzun recognized Meng Chen's breakthrough and welcomed him back to the Chan Sect.
• Meng Chen told Yuanshi Tianzun that the Yangmei Great World had declared war on Xuanmen, and Yuanshi explained that the saints and heavenly powers were preparing for the battle at the Chaos Palace.
• Yuanshi Tianzun reported that Great Immortal Zhen Yuan, Queen Mother of the West, Lu Wu, and Goddess Houtu had offered support, while other powerful figures had not yet stated their positions.
• Yuanshi Tianzun left to discuss the battle plan with Meng Chen's Eldest Senior Brother and handed the sect's affairs over to Meng Chen.

After breaking through to Hunyuan Golden Immortal, Meng Chen reviewed the Chan Sect, Myriad Witch Kingdom, and Human Race, then planned reforms to strengthen his forces. He left the Chan Sect with a demanding training program and turned to the next steps for the Myriad Witch Kingdom’s overseas expansion.

• Meng Chen sent an avatar to Jade Capital Mountain to tell Azure Dragon Lord Cangwu about his breakthrough, then reviewed Chan Sect records and found that many disciples had advanced to Grand Golden Immortal while Yellow Dragon True Man had fallen behind.
• Meng Chen drafted a Chan Sect training program that included cultivation secret realms, a contribution-point system, strength assessments, an Immortal Dao Conference, broader recruitment, and an Enforcement Elder.
• Meng Chen reviewed the Myriad Witch Kingdom’s growth to seventeen Great Luo Gold Immortals and planned to send five clan leaders to garrison overseas islands and develop trade and immortal cities.
• Meng Chen reviewed Yuanshi Tianzun’s work with the Human Race and approved of his efforts to civilize them after they lost hope of becoming the Heavenly Protagonist.
• Yuanshi Tianzun relaxed in the Eight Scenery Palace and advised Sage Laozi to rest, while Sage Laozi continued working on a disciple training program.

Meng Chen gathered the Chan Sect disciples and revealed a cultivation realm far beyond theirs, winning their submission. He assigned them to travel across the Primordial Wilderness and document its races and cultures, sending Wu Liangzi and Juliusun to the West.

• Meng Chen summoned the Chan Sect disciples and surveyed their cultivation, while Wu Liangzi recognized that Meng Chen had reached the Quasi-Sage realm.
• Wu Liangzi abandoned his resentment, bowed to Meng Chen, and praised him; Juliusun secretly feared for his concealed ties to the Western Church.
• Yu Ding Zhenren and the other disciples pledged to obey Meng Chen and help the Chan Sect prosper.
• Meng Chen ordered the disciples to travel through the Primordial Wilderness and record the customs, histories, and cultures of its races.
• Meng Chen assigned Juliusun and Wu Liangzi to visit the Western lands, leaving Juliusun nervous about whether Meng Chen knew his secret.

Meng Chen prepared Zhen Yizi to grow stronger and then traveled to the Witch-Demon War battlefield to repair the damaged Earth Veins with a Chaos Creature’s corpse. His successful restoration showed how he could revive the land and earn Merit, while setting the stage for him to approach the Two Sages of the West.

• Meng Chen sent Yu Ding Zhenren and other Chan Sect disciples to travel among the races, temper themselves, and spread the Chan Sect’s influence.
• Meng Chen supplied Zhen Yizi with divine materials and Merit as he cultivated the Mystic Arts of Eight Nine, hoping he would enter Buzhou Grotto-Heaven when it emerged.
• Meng Chen opened a spatial gate to Mount Buzhou and then descended to the Witch-Demon War battlefield.
• Meng Chen used a Chaos Creature’s corpse and the Pangu Common Being Sutra to turn ruined land into mountains, fields, and spiritual veins.
• Meng Chen saw that even a Great Luo Golden Immortal Chaos Creature could restore the land and concluded that stronger corpses could repair even more of the Primordial World.

Meng Chen restored a ruined region of the East with Chaos Creature corpses and opened the new immortal lands to cultivators, earning heavenly merit. Watching from the West, Sage Jieyin and Sage Zhunti resolved to seek Yuanshi Tianzun’s permission to invite Meng Chen to help restore their land.

• Meng Chen used Primordial Chaos Loam and Chaos Creature remains to restore the land, then invited living beings who accepted Xuanmen’s civilizing influence to cultivate there.
• Rogue cultivators praised Yuanshi Tianzun, while Meng Chen left for another region and received a descent of merit.
• Sage Jieyin and Sage Zhunti discussed how Meng Chen’s method might help the West, but recognized that the Western earth veins were too extensive for his limited supply of corpses to repair alone.
• Sage Zhunti concluded that Meng Chen must have another way to restore the West and proposed asking Yuanshi Tianzun for permission to invite him.
• Sage Jieyin agreed that they should make the request and said they could retrieve the hidden pieces planted within the Chan Sect because they could not deceive God-Emperor Meng Zhang.

Meng Chen repaired the Earth Veins and explained how the Undying Tree could restore the Western Ancestor Veins, though he refused to sacrifice it. At the site of Di Jun’s self-destruction, he confronted Wuzhiqi after the monkey tried to steal a Chaos Creature’s corpse.

• Meng Chen explained that repairing the Earth Veins could restore innate spiritual energy, while the Undying Tree could replace the severed Western Ancestor Veins if planted in the western lands.
• Meng Chen said he would cleanse the damage from Di Jun’s self-destruction and use a Chaos Creature’s corpse to help the Primordial World repair itself.
• Meng Chen placed a peak Hunyuan Golden Immortal Chaos Creature’s corpse near the Primordial Wilderness’s ancestral veins.
• Wuzhiqi burst from underground and attacked Meng Chen to seize the corpse.
• Meng Chen rewound time, seized Wuzhiqi from beneath the earth, and placed a talisman in his sea of consciousness.

Meng Chen killed Wuzhiqi after he tried to seize a Chaos Creature's corpse, then confronted Profound Yellow Dao Lord for attacking him during the rescue attempt. Profound Yellow Dao Lord failed to flee and ended up trapped before Meng Chen, who had locked onto him with the Great Dao of Fate.

• Meng Chen subdued Wuzhiqi and prepared to kill him with the God-Slaying Spear.
• Profound Yellow Dao Lord tried to rescue Wuzhiqi, but the Apricot Yellow Banner blocked his attack as Meng Chen destroyed Wuzhiqi's primordial spirit and sent his true spirit to the Eternal Calamity Land.
• Meng Chen questioned Profound Yellow Dao Lord about Wuzhiqi's attempt to seize his treasure, and Profound Yellow Dao Lord denied ordering it and apologized.
• Meng Chen said Profound Yellow Dao Lord's attack made him a target, so Profound Yellow Dao Lord fled through the void.
• Meng Chen used the Great Dao of Fate to pull Profound Yellow Dao Lord back before him, leaving Profound Yellow Dao Lord pleading for his life.

Meng Chen defeated and captured Profound Yellow Dao Lord, then brought him to Kunlun Mountain to question him about the Ten Continents Land’s past actions in the Primordial Wilderness. He revealed that he intended to reach beyond the Ten Continents Land and claim All Heavens and Myriad Realms.

• Meng Chen suppressed Profound Yellow Dao Lord’s calculations with the Dao of Fate and overwhelmed him in battle with the God-Slaying Spear.
• Profound Yellow Dao Lord’s Profound Yellow Divine Sword was reduced to a dagger, and Meng Chen tore open his body with a spear strike.
• Meng Chen nailed Profound Yellow Dao Lord in the void, suppressing his body, primordial spirit, and true spirit.
• Meng Chen took Profound Yellow Dao Lord to the Jade Void Palace on Kunlun Mountain and asked about the Ten Continents Land’s seizure of Earth Veins and abduction of Human Race beings.
• Meng Chen declared that he wanted All Heavens and Myriad Realms, leaving Profound Yellow Dao Lord horrified.

Meng Chen exposed Profound Yellow Dao Lord’s plan to establish the Ten Continents Divine Court as a rival to the Wu Clan, then used the Wishing Spring to fulfill his final wish. Profound Yellow Dao Lord wished to escape back to the Ten Continents Divine Court, but the wish killed him and sent his true spirit to the Eternal Calamity Land.

• Profound Yellow Dao Lord mocked Meng Chen’s ambition to extend the Chan Sect’s influence across all the heavens and myriad realms.
• Meng Chen explained that he would gather support through benefits and revealed that he knew the Ten Continents Divine Court planned to claim the position of Heavenly Protagonist.
• Meng Chen used the Morality-Reflecting Mirror to expose Profound Yellow Dao Lord’s inner thoughts and his plan to make the Ten Continents Divine Court a second Wu Clan.
• Meng Chen summoned the Wishing Spring and threatened Profound Yellow Dao Lord’s disciples and grand-disciples to make him use it.
• Profound Yellow Dao Lord wished to escape to the Ten Continents Divine Court in exchange for half his calamity fate, but the wish killed him and sent his true spirit to the Eternal Calamity Land.

Meng Chen continued repairing the Primordial Wilderness’s Earth Veins, drawing the attention of the Two Sages of the West, who sought help restoring their region. Yuanshi Tianzun offered a way to save the west, but said one of them would have to sacrifice his Saintly Body to become its Ancestral Vein.

• Meng Chen returned to the Primordial Wilderness and continued repairing the Earth Veins after deciding not to interfere with the Ten Continents Divine Court.
• Sage Zhunti warned Sage Jieyin not to covet Meng Chen’s treasures, and the two went to the Eight Scenery Palace to discuss the western Earth Veins.
• Sage Laozi asked Yuanshi Tianzun how he would handle the Two Sages’ request, and Yuanshi Tianzun acknowledged his past role in creating the west’s predicament.
• The Two Sages of the West asked Yuanshi Tianzun to save their living beings from misery.
• Yuanshi Tianzun explained that one of them would have to abandon his Saintly Body and transform into the western Ancestral Vein before Meng Chen could repair the other Earth Veins.

Yuanshi Tianzun asked the Two Sages of the West to sacrifice their saintly bodies to restore the Western Ancestor Veins. Sage Zhunti accepted, transformed into the Western land’s ancestor veins, and left the West restored while declaring that only Subhuti would remain.

• Sage Laozi and Yuanshi Tianzun challenged the Two Sages of the West to give up their saintly bodies for the Western Ancestor Veins.
• Sage Jieyin hesitated and glanced at Sage Zhunti, who realized his senior brother expected him to make the sacrifice.
• Sage Zhunti agreed to transform his Innate Bodhi Tree body into the Western Ancestor Veins and asked Yuanshi Tianzun to teach him the method.
• After mastering the technique, Sage Zhunti left the Eight Scenery Palace and announced that he would repay Heaven and Earth with his saintly body.
• Sage Zhunti’s Bodhi Tree merged into the earth, connecting the Western and Eastern Earth Veins and restoring the Western Ancestor Veins.

Sage Zhunti sacrificed his Saintly Body to restore an Ancestral Vein in the western lands, while Meng Chen recognized how the revived West could benefit his plans. At the Eight Scenery Palace, Yuanshi Tianzun revealed that he knew the Two Sages of the West had planted pawns in the Chan Sect and warned them against challenging him.

• Sage Zhunti transformed himself into an Ancestral Vein, restoring one of the western lands’ veins and bringing the region back to life.
• Meng Chen sensed the restored vein and realized he could use it to transport spiritual energy from the Eastern Lands to the West.
• Sage Jieyin demanded that Yuanshi Tianzun make Meng Chen fulfill the conditions, but Yuanshi Tianzun said Meng Chen might not obey him.
• Yuanshi Tianzun explained that teachers should treat disciples as equals and as Dao Friends, allies, and teachers.
• Yuanshi Tianzun accused the Two Sages of the West of sending Daoist Ran Deng and Juliusun to undermine the Chan Sect and threatened to seek their teacher’s judgment.
• The Two Sages of the West feared Yuanshi Tianzun might expose them to the demonic path, where they would be treated as traitors.

Yuanshi Tianzun confronted the Two Sages of the West over their schemes against the Chan Sect and forced Sage Jieyin to accept harsh terms. The Western Church’s disciples were sent to serve the Chan Sect, and the West Sea and two other territories were ceded as the dispute ended.

• Yuanshi Tianzun revealed that the Two Sages of the West had planted spies in the Chan Sect and Intercepting Teaching, then intimidated them with Pangu's True Body and Divine Pillars Lightning.
• Sage Jieyin claimed that his disciples had gone east only to study the Pangu Sect's Daoist arts, and Yuanshi Tianzun partly accepted the explanation.
• Yuanshi Tianzun demanded that eight Western Church disciples serve the Chan Sect for ten million years and that the West Sea, Wu Liangzi, and Juliusun be ceded.
• When Sage Jieyin tried to negotiate, Yuanshi Tianzun threatened to destroy the Western Church, and Sage Jieyin immediately agreed to the terms.
• Yuanshi Tianzun withdrew his power and promised that loyal service to Xuanmen could lead the Two Sages of the West toward prosperity and even Chaotic Origin; they pledged to reform and strengthen the Primordial Wilderness.

After restoring the Eastern Lands’ Earth Veins, Meng Chen met Haotian God, who sought his help in protecting his younger sister from a future love tribulation. Haotian explained that she had been tainted by the Myriad Tribulations Passion Gu after encountering Chang'e, and Meng Chen agreed to hear his concern.

• Meng Chen completed the restoration of the Eastern Lands’ Earth Veins over five thousand six hundred years and received more Merit from the Heavenly Dao.
• Haotian God appeared before Meng Chen and asked to make a deal.
• Haotian told Meng Chen that his younger sister had recently taken form and feared she might suffer a love tribulation.
• Haotian explained that his sister had encountered Chang'e and become tainted by the Myriad Tribulations Passion Gu’s aura.
• Meng Chen praised Haotian’s younger sister for her nerve after hearing what had happened to Chang'e and Da Yi.

Meng Chen negotiated with Haotian God over Yun Bo Soup, heavenly realms, and a newly revealed Undying Fruit. Haotian God became eager to trade for the fruit using treasures from Ancestor Hongjun’s treasury.

• Meng Chen explained that Yao Ji could be freed from Tribulation Qi by having her memories extracted and then drinking forty-nine bowls of Yun Bo Soup.
• Haotian God admitted he wanted to build a faction of Orthodox Gods and offered the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Heavens in exchange for Chaos Creature corpses.
• Meng Chen suggested Haotian God seek treasures in the Purple Cloud Palace treasury, and Haotian God was startled by his audacity.
• Meng Chen gave Haotian God an Undying Fruit, whose first two bites increased Haotian God’s Calamity Fate and gave him a life imprint that could let him revive.
• Meng Chen offered to trade the two heavenly realms for eight Great Luo Golden Immortal Chaos Creature corpses and said Ancestor Hongjun’s refined treasures could be exchanged for more Undying Fruits.

Haotian God returned to the Heavenly Realm after handing more duties to the Chan Sect, while Meng Chen welcomed the Western Sages’ request for aid. Meng Chen revealed that a treasure could locate other greater worlds, offering the Two Sages of the West a possible way to restore the western Ancestral Veins.

• Haotian God returned to the Heavenly Realm, pleased that the Chan Sect was helping govern it and his authority was secure.
• Yuanshi Tianzun met Meng Chen with Sage Jieyin and Sage Zhunti, explaining that the Western Church had ceded territory and offered disciples to aid the Chan Sect.
• Sage Jieyin called Master Tongtian Tongtian the Demon, and Meng Chen thanked Sage Zhunti for helping him before promising to support the West.
• Meng Chen told the Two Sages of the West that they could restore the western Ancestral Veins by conquering another greater world and taking its veins.
• Meng Chen revealed that he possessed a treasure capable of locating greater worlds, but said its use consumed enormous amounts of Calamity Fate.

Meng Chen traded the Western Church a route into the Three Thousand Greater Worlds for twenty percent of its calamity fate, then used a jade bed to send Yuanshi Tianzun’s divine sense exploring. Yuanshi Tianzun discovered how dangerous the greater worlds were and reached the Saintess Great World, where its heavenly court’s white clothing left him bewildered.

• Meng Chen demanded twenty percent of the Western Church’s calamity fate in exchange for helping the Two Sages of the West enter the Three Thousand Greater Worlds, and Sage Zhunti accepted by swearing an oath to Heavenly Dao.
• Meng Chen produced a jade bed from the Heavenly Wood Temple and explained that it could send someone’s divine sense into the Three Thousand Greater Worlds.
• Yuanshi Tianzun used the jade bed to explore the chaos, but divine light from an ancient palace in the Yangmei Great World destroyed his divine sense.
• Yuanshi Tianzun realized that the Western Church would need other sages’ help to conquer greater worlds and restore its ancestral vein, and that Meng Chen had arranged for him to take part in opening new territories.
• Yuanshi Tianzun sent another strand of divine sense into the Saintess Great World and found its heavenly court filled with immortals dressed in white.

Yuanshi Tianzun observed the Saintess Great World and was appalled by its birth-based hierarchy and unjust trials, then reported its three Saints and the Mystic Yin Treasure Zither to Sage Jieyin. Sage Jieyin gave Meng Chen twenty percent of his Calamity Fate, strengthening him and leaving him interested in attacking the Three Thousand Worlds.

• Yuanshi Tianzun watched a Golden Immortal woman humiliate a stronger immortal and saw Xue Hongyi cripple her own cultivation after her sect accused her of stealing pills.
• Yuanshi Tianzun concluded that the Saintess Great World's inhabitants were unworthy of existence and left a Waypoint there.
• Yuanshi Tianzun told Sage Jieyin that the world had three Saints and that Dunhuang Saint possessed the Mystic Yin Treasure Zither.
• Yuanshi Tianzun gave Sage Jieyin the requested information and demanded that he transfer Calamity Fate to Meng Chen.
• Sage Jieyin handed Meng Chen twenty percent of his Calamity Fate, boosting Meng Chen's cultivation and stirring his interest in attacking the Three Thousand Worlds.

After the Western Church’s conflict with the Chan Sect ended, Sage Zhunti left Mount Sumeru, severing his emotional ties with Sage Jieyin. Meanwhile, Guang Chengzi arrived at the Undying Volcano and challenged Kong Xuan to a fight.

• The Two Sages of the West promised to send the Eight Elites of the Western Church to serve Yuanshi Tianzun after Meng Chen headed west to repair the Earth Veins.
• Sage Zhunti told Sage Jieyin he was leaving Mount Sumeru, and he departed after declaring their brotherhood over.
• Heavenly Secrets announced Sage Zhunti’s departure, shocking the Primordial World, while Meng Chen concluded that the Sages’ split would help bring peace.
• Guang Chengzi arrived at the Undying Volcano and met Kong Xuan, who agreed to fight him.

Guang Chengzi and Kong Xuan fought in the Undying Battlefield, with Guang Chengzi narrowly winning after breaking through Kong Xuan’s Five Elements World. The two returned to the hall as friends, while both acknowledged how far Meng Chen stood above them.

• Guang Chengzi and Kong Xuan began their match, using their respective divine abilities and weapons in a fierce exchange.
• Kong Xuan’s Five Elements storm suppressed Guang Chengzi until Guang Chengzi used the Art of United Man and Treasure to turn his twin swords into a yin-yang millstone.
• Guang Chengzi broke through Kong Xuan’s Five Elements World, prompting Kong Xuan to concede defeat.
• Guang Chengzi and Kong Xuan praised each other’s skills and discussed their cultivation paths and the support they had received.
• Kong Xuan and Guang Chengzi drank together, acknowledging Meng Chen’s extraordinary strength.